1932 - Third Olympic Winter Games held at Lake Placid, New York, with downhill and slalom still excluded.

1932 - North America's first rope tow is invented by Alex Foster and installed at Shawbridge, Quebec.

1934 - January 28 saw the first rope tow installed in the U.S. by Bob and Betty Royce, proprietors of the White Cupboard Inn, in Woodstock, VT.

1935 - The first Kandahar cable binding holding the skier's heel to the ski is introduced.

1935 - First European T-bar: the J-bar at Davos, is converted to a T-bar.

1936 - Averill Haarriman, the president of the Union Pacific Railroad, purchased several thousand acres of Idaho ranchland for the first destination ski resort in North America. It was later named Sun Valley.

1936 - First chairlift in the world on Dollar Mtn. at Sun Valley

Johnny Ellis, Dartmouth class of Õ35, helps construct first

1936-38 - Rope tows at Lake Mary (Mt. Judah) and Clair Tappaan Lodge

1936 - The Third Winter Games holds world's first Olympic alpine events, a downhill and slalom combined, at Garmisch.

1938 - Dave McCoy sets up rope tow at Mammoth Mt., California.

1939 - Sugar Bowl in Norden, California opened by John Wiley and Hannes Schrol

1940's - Beartrap bindings

1945 - Friedl Pfeifer meets with the City Council at Aspen and outlines the plan for creating a top international resort at Aspen.

1960 - Eighth Olympic Winter Games at Squaw Valley, California. first alpine Games in the U.S.; Penny Pitou wins silver medals in downhill and giant slalom, and Betsy Snite wins a silver medal in slalom.

1964 - Construction of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

1964 - Billy Kidd and Jimmy Heuga become the first American men to win Olympic medals for alpine skiing, being second and third, respectively, in the slalom of the ninth Olympic Winter Games at Innsbruck, Austria. Jean Saubert ties for second in the giant slalom and places third in the slalom.

1964 - The first Lange all plastic buckle boots are commercially available.